Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 301, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1923 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAY SIR NORMAN GREYES, formerly of Scotland Yard, Is devoting his time to tracking down an arch criminal known to him as MICHAEL SAYERS. JANET SOALE, maid in Sayers’ cottage, shoots down a police officer who tracks Michael to his abode. _ Sayers is known as Mr. Stanfield, but Sir Norman becomes suspicious as to his real Identity. After a three months' vacation, Greyes meets Stanfield in a hotel lobby. Sir Norman has an interview with a South American widow, staying at the same hotel, regarding a policy of a hundred thousand pounds carried on her wonderful rope of pearls. When being interviewed, the widow sends the pearls to the hotel safe by her maid, who is robbed and beaten unconscious. NOW GO ON WITH STORY Sir Norman Continues “It is hard to keep anything out of the press nowadays,” I reminded him, “but so far as I am concerned you may rely upon my discretion." • • • THE few days that followed were filled with hysterical and‘irritating appeals, complaints and inquiries from Mrs. De Mendoza herself, the insurance company and the thanagement. No efforts on our part could keep the affair out of the news papers, and the disappearance of the necklace became the universal subject of conversation.

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SHE HELD OUT HER LEFT FINGERS. I RAISED THEM TO MY LIPS. On the sixth day after the robbery I felt that a. brief est-ape was necessary. I proposed to Mr. Stanfield, whom I met in the hall of the hotel, that we go down to Woking and have & round of golf, an arrangement to which he agreed with avidity. Wo lunched at the clubhouse, and as on previous occasions, we played a careful and hard-fought game. It was on the eighteenth tee when one of those unexplained moments of inspiration came to me which serve as the landmarks of life. We had spoken *pf—that grim tragedy which had interrupted our first game. I thought of poor Ladbrooke lying there with a bullet hole In his forehead, the maid, Janet, serene and secretive, with the strange eyes and the unruffled manner. The memory of these things came back to me as I stood there, and it seemed as though my faculties were suddenly prompted by a new vigor and anew insight. Supposing it had been the maid who had killed the prying stranger! What was her motive! Whom was she trying to> shield? Could it be her master? And If her master's name was not Stanfield, might it not be Pugsley? ' The two men were of the came height and build, and the one thing which Rimmington had always Insisted upon was Pugslfy’s genius for disguise. The pieces of my puzzle fell together like magic, and with them the puzzle of the necklace. I turned back to the tee and I was suddenly conscious of my companion’s Intense gaze. “Your honor,” he said tersely. I topped my drive miserably. My companion’s drive went sailing down ►the course, and he halved the match In a perfectly' played four. We walked together to the clubhouse. “A whisky and soda?" I suggested. “I'll change my shoes first," he answered, turning toward the dressing room. I drank my whisky and soda, exchanged greetings with a few acquaintances and paid my bill. Then I went to look for Stanfield, I might have spared myself the trouble. He and the taxi had alike disappeared. I had to wait they telephoned for another, and I traveled up to London alone. • • • The game was played out In quite the gTand fashion. On my arrival at

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the hotel, I found the representative of the Insurance company waiting to see me, and I was told that Mrs. Mendoza was in her room. Accompanied by the manager, we made our way thither. I think that she was well prepared for what was coming, or rather one part of It. She received us a little impatiently. "I have been waiting to hear from your firm all day,” she said, addressing Delchester. “My jewelers, who valued the pearls, and my legal adviser, have helped to make out my claim. I am anxious to know when I may expect your check.” “I am thankful to say, madam, that that will not be necessary,” the manager announced, stepping forward. “Here is your necklace.” He handed it to her. She stared at it like a woman transfixed. There were no signs of joy in her face. She seemed, indeed, for the stricken with consternation. “When was It found?” she demanded breathlessly. “About 4 o’clock on the morning after the theft.” I tol dher. “Rut where?” “If you will come with me,” I replied, ”1 will show you." I led the way down the corridor to the exact spot where Annette had been attacked, and opened the door of the nearest room. I saw Mrs. De Mendoza start when she saw the heavy bolt which had been fitted to the communicating door. "I came to the conclusion,” I explained, “that the theft was committed by someone hiding in one of these three rooms, and to the further conclusion that the necklace had been hidden on the spot.” “How did you guess that?” she inquired. / “Because the thief made a slight blunder," I answered. “For a single moment, as I stood by Annette’s ride In the darkness outside, I saw a light flash out through the transom of this room. I must admit, however." I went on. “that it took me four hours to find the necklace.” “Where was It, then?" she asked curiously. I turned up the rug. In one of the planks of the wooden floor was a j knot. I took a little corkscrew gimlet from my pocket, bored into it and drew it out. Then I made Delchester push his finger through. There was a hook fastened In the under side of the floor. “The necklace was hanging there.” I told him. “I imagine it would have been found later by someone making a point of occupying this room. Asa matter of fact, I believe, it was booked for the first week in June.” “By whom?” Mrs. De Mendoza demanded. “By Mr. Stanfield,” I replied. “He ir paying a return visit in June, and he appears to prefer this room to the one he is occupying at present.” There was a brief silence. Delchester held out his hand. “We are very much obliged to you, Sir Norman.” he declared. "Our Insurance, as you know, expired at midday today. I need not say that it will not be renewed. I wish you all good afternoon.” He took his leave. The manager appealed to me. “Sir Norman,” he said, "there is a great deal, in this matter which it is hard to understand. I hope that you will not consider it a case for the . police?” I turned to Mrs. De Mendoza. “Do you wish to prosecute?” I asked. “There is a, certain amount of circumstantial evidence which might be collected.” "Against whom?” “Against the gentleman whom we havej<nown as Mr. Stanfield.” She laughed scornfully. “That, funny, little man who sits about in the lounge? I would as soon believe that you yourself were the thief, Sir Norman! I have my necklace and that it all I care about,” she concluded.

The manager departed very much relieved. Mrs. De Mendoza beckoned me to follow her to her suite. Arrived in her sitting room, she closed the door. She had rather the look of a tigress as she turned and faced me. Never was a woman bom or more splendid courage. "And the epilogue?” she asked. “I fear,” I replied, "that the epilogue must Ata postponed. It was only today, on Woking golf links, that a certain little scene of eighteen months ago became reconstructed in my mind. I saw a motiveless crime fxplalned. I realized by whose hand that bullet might have found its way into Uiadbrooke’s brain, and for whose sake.” "Yet you let him go!” she cried. "I must admit that he has .scored a trick,” I said slowly. "But you must remember, or perhaps you have yet to find out, that the world where such a man can live, Is a very small place." “And what about me?” she asked. “From the moment when I heard that you had gone out with him alone, I could foresee what was coming. Yet I was not afraid. I waited for you.” I looked at the necklace and shrugged. "It is hard to leave a hundred thousand pounds,” I pointed out, "and so far as you realized, the game was not up. Not a soul In this hotel except myself knew that the necklace had liren recovered. Yet you had courage to remain and see the thing through. I admit that.” She came a little nearer to me. The green lights in her eyes were soft. T felt the attraction of her as she meant me to. "Where I love.” she said. "I have courage and my love has every quality which the devil ever distilled, except constancy. Are you afraid of me. Sir Norman, because I killed a man who ” “A confession,” I muttered. She laughed. "No witnesses.” she reminded me. "After all. It was you who once said that murder was the easiest of crimes. What you know and what I know will never take me to the dock. Would you put me there if you could, my enemy?” I drew a little away. Her breath was almost upon my cheek; her lips had taken to themsatlves the curve of Invitation.

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"I would put you there without a moment's hesitation,” I retorted. “You killed a man In cold blood to shield a murderer and a criminal. The hand of justice Is slow, especially where evidence is scanty, but In the end it grips.” She laughed scornfully. “You speak In ignorance,” she dedared. "At least be friends,” she went on, “until you can drag; me to the gallows. I shot him with my right hand.” ,

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

THE OLD HOME TOWN—By STANLEY

She held out her left fingers. I raised them to my lips. “The kiss of Judas,” I warned her. “You will need more than his cunning," she answered. “The Leeds Bank Robbery,” third story of tills remarkable series, will begin in our next issue. After Aug. 1, 1923,,a1l canned con skimmed milk in England must be labeled "unfit for babies.”

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FOUR HAVE ENTIRE SHIP Liner’s (drew Surround Selected Passenger List. NEW YORK, April 28.—How would you like to be one of four first-class passengers on an ocean liner, with forty-five stewards at your beck and call, a full orchestra giving two concerts daily for your benefit, a barber, bartender and others to dance atten-

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dance on you? That’s what happened to the firstclass passengers on the Red Star liner Veeland from Antwerp. The passenegrs were F. B. Hoppih, a publisher; his sister Frances, the Rev. J. T. Mullen of Worcester. Mass., and Francis Bradley, a steamship agent of New York. The barber said he didn't give a single shave on the trip and only three haircuts. The bartender sqrved pnly nine bottles of seltzer water. \

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OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

ALCOMETER IS DETECTOR CARLISLE, Pa., April 28.—Dr. Er nest Vuilltumier, professor of chemistry at Dickinson College, has invented a device called the alchometer. which he asserts will determine the alcoholic content of any liquid within fifteen minutes. Major Adams, superintendent of the Pennsylvania State Police, after a demonstration of the

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apparatus, has ordered that the State police be equipped with it to aid in carrying out Governor Pinchot’s war gainst bootleggers. Police officials say that through the alchometer it will be possible to obtain prompt and invulnerable evidence against persons selling pre-prohibition beer. The instrument also will be used tor testing liquid foodstuffs for their alcoholic content. Dr. Vuilleumier Is assembling twenty-five machines for the State police.